This Just Might Be the Greatest Marvel Comic Ever

Newsarama has the story that Paul Tobin will be writing a new comic in the Marvel Adventures line, Marvel Adventures Super-Heroes. One of the issues will feature art by his wife and Banana Sunday collaborator Colleen Coover (her again!), and it will feature Spider-Man, and Hellcat, and Mary Jane, and She-Hulk, and Clea, and the Enchantress, and Marvel Girl, and the Scarlet Witch. Also: Millie the Model.

BTW, Tobin is also starting a four-issue run on Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four with YACB fave and ex-Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane artist David Hahn on three of those issues. It starts this week with MAFF #34, so be sure to look for it tomorrow at your friendly local comic shop!

Phoebe Gloeckner Vid

Randomly caught this on the Michigan Channel while channel surfing late at night. I went to all the trouble of transferring from the TiVo and converting to a usable format, then discovered it was already on YouTube:

Colleen Coover's Power Focus

Another Colleen Coover Alert!

According to her LiveJournal, Colleen will be illustrating a series of 2-page back-ups for the upcoming Power Pack: Day One mini under the umbrella title "Power Focus." In these pieces written by Fred Van Lente (of Action Philosophers fame) the Power Pack kids take turns explaining the laws of physics. Fun!

The Most Popular Graphic Novel in All the Land

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Yes, I know there's some dispute over whether or not Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a graphic novel; but here's a prominent window display of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules at Borders store #1 here in Ann Arbor.

BTW, I plan on visiting the new Borders Concept Store sometime next week, and hopefully will have pictures of their Graphic Novel Island.

My Original Art

I don't own a lot of original comic art, but I do own four pieces of original art from Superman by Curt Swan. They've been matted and framed and now hang on the wall in my back hallway. This makes scanning them troublesome, but I did recently pull out the digital camera:


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Here the four pieces hang side-by-side on the wall.



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Superman vs. Chemo from Superman #382, inked by Dave Hunt.


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Lana Lang confronts Jimmy Olsen and new cub reporter Justin Moore in Superman #383, inked by Dave Hunt.



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Jimmy Olsen discovers a villain at a radio telescope in Superman #378, inked by Dave Hunt.



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Lois Lane infiltrates the villains' lair. Can she uncover their plot to use a deadly Hydrogen Bomb?! From Superman #238, inked by Murphy Anderson.

No more anonymous comments

While in theory I believe in allowing anonymous comments on this blog, in practice the comment spammers have forced me to deny that option. From now on you'll need a Google/Blogger ID or an OpenID to make comments. Sorry folks!

Bedtime Reading

Graphic novels about paleontology make for great bedtime reading!